Offers counselling, care support, memory clinic, training for home carers, home visit, day care for dementia patients, etc, and runs helpline. Actively arranges events like awareness programs. Also contact to check availability of dementia/ caregiving material in English and Bengali

Day Care
ARDSI Calcutta Dementia Daycare CentreSriti SudhayC 144 Survey ParkKolkata 700075(10 am to 4 pm, Monday to Saturday)Phone: 9331039839/ 03332017044/ 08232014540 Note that all day cares were closed during COVID lockdown. Please contact individual entities directly about their current status and also the measures they follow/ plan to follow to ensure safety of persons using the facility.

One ARDSI Calcutta Chapter project is the “Bholanath Das Dementia Clinic and Research Centre” in Chandernagore, West Bengal, Pin 712138. This is open on Sunday mornings 10:00 am to 2: pm, Phone: 9062925183 (update received: April 2018).

Additional Listings: Organizations providing services to support home care/ may support some dementia care

Names received from readers/ volunteers/ newspaper reports/ other sources for organizations that provide home care services for seniors. Some of them may support dementia care, and even have facilities that accept dementia persons. Please satisfy yourself about the suitability and reliability while using any such agency for home health helpers:

Tribeca care: This claims to provide some dementia-related services and support. More information is not available, so please contact them to check reliability and suitability. Website at tribecacare.com, contact numbers: +91 33 40277777 / +91 8017770323

Some multi-city organizations that may be offering support in Kolkata. Please note, service that is good in one city may not be good in another. Typical services to ask about: home nursing (attendants, nurses, wound care and nursing procedures), physiotherapy, doctor visits, home dental care, sample collections, equipment hire, pharmacy at home, etc. Some of them may claim to support dementia care. List below is alphabetically ordered

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get trained attendants, and many families use general attendants and train them on dementia themselves or with the help of volunteers. Even attendants trained by agencies for dementia often need additional training. Read a detailed discussion on this topic at: Using Trained Attendants for Dementia Home Care. Also, please ensure that you evaluate any service/ facility before using it.

Helpage helpline: This all-India organization with local branches supports senior citizens in multiple ways. They may also offer geriatric physiotherapy.Contact them at 1800 180 1253 (All-India tollfree number). Local Kolkata office: 033-32904121/ 22492526 Email: kolkata@helpageindia.org, Website: helpageindia.org Opens in new window (Please note that the Dementia Day Care project of Helpage India, earlier at Kalyan Ashram, Paramhansa Deb Road, Kolkata, has been discontinued. Contact Helpage directly to see if they have any new offering specifically for dementia.

A list of local services can usually be obtained by surfing the Internet using keywords and the name of the city, and looking for various types of services. Most cities will have some home care services, old age homes, nursing agencies, etc. The larger hospitals of the city will usually have memory clinics, geriatric clinics, or geriatric psychiatry clinics to help the initial diagnosis of dementia. Search for these combined with your city name and other such phrases.

Use various combinations and alternate city names for more suitable results.For example, you may look for Kolkata, Kolkatta, Calcutta , or whatever else you consider useful. Search using locality names also.

Updates/ fresh data on dementia support facilities/ services may also be available from the National Dementia Helpline ( ﻿0484-277-5088). E-mail: ndh@ardsi.org) or other helplines handled by the ARDSI National Office (﻿09846198471,09846198786, 09846198473)

The reception/ nurses at local hospitals often know about agencies that supply attendants/ nurses for home care.

Many large path lab services also provide home pickup of blood samples.

Many neighborhood path labs and small clinics are able to send nurses home for some minor procedures, like IV. Some even have contacts of doctors who may be willing to make home visits (you must satisfy yourself about the quality and reliability)

Also note, contact numbers and addresses keep changing. If you have an problems old number/ name of hospital/ doctor, etc., get the latest details using local telephone inquiry/ assistance services.

Disclaimer:Data on this page is provided for information and convenience, and is not an endorsement for any person/ organization/ service/ resource. We make no claims that the contents of this page are either accurate or complete, or that the persons/ organizations listed are reliable or that they are suitable for you (no fitment for purpose is intended or implied).

10 thoughts on “Resources for dementia care: Kolkata (West Bengal)”

I am not aware of any respite care in Kolkata that specializes in supporting persons with dementia, but please do contact ARDSI Kolkata listed above for updated information and general related support and suggestions.

Also, please note that if you are looking for placing someone with dementia at a home, you will need to be very careful to check the suitability and reliability of the facility for the person you are placing, regardless of the reputation of the place. You may find some pointers for evaluation at this link: http://dementiacarenotes.in/caregivers/toolkit/using-services/#respite

This site has many pages that discuss what dementia is, how it progresses, how it affects the person with dementia and family members, and what sort of care can be planned and given. You can use the menu to see the various pages on the site.

As is clearly stated on the site, we offer no services or facilities, and the site is for informational purposes only, to help family caregivers in India understand more about dementia care in our Indian context. The page above collects all that we know of dementia services in Kolkata, and you will need to evaluate the listed organizations for suitability and reliability; listing a services does not mean we recommend it. Please use the information provided above for leads of organizations you may want to contact and evaluate. Specifically, try contacting ARDSI Kolkata listed above.

I also suggest that you go through the other pages on the site using the menu bar options. You may find them useful to get a perspective on the challenges that may be there and what to consider while planning and providing care. Dementia care is a long journey, and the role of medicine-based relief is very limited, so being better informed and prepared can be a great help.

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